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Prof. V. Nikam
Head of Department,
Dept. Electronics and Telecommunication
Dhole Patil College of Engineering
Wagholi, Pune, India.
nikamvb78@gmail.com
AbstractThe growing demand of energy in day to life has also increase the demand of monitoring and managing it. So a connectivity
solution for smart metering address the challenge of liable, secure and robust communications for remote metering and home energy
management, Enabling remote metering with Web connectivity is needed.
In this paper an AMR solution with standalone transceivers to complete systems-on-chip with 32-bit ARM core and embedded memory,
supporting both sub-GHz frequencies (including 868/915MHz) and 2.4 GHz license-free frequency bands is discussed with other available
solution.
Index Terms Smart Grid, Smart Energy Monitoring Unit, Billing Service, AMR, AMI, ADE7880, MK60FN1M0VLQ12.
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I. INTRODUCTION
Governments worldwide are mandating improved energy
efficiency, requiring an investment in the new smart grid and
smart energy management structure .The goal is to create a
smart grid that will change the way power is deployed for
sustainable energy around the world. This document will
address design challenges within the smart grid.
Lower system cost: Required to reduce time to market,
R&D investment and BOM costs while adding features for
smart grid requirements
Low (system) power: Must have efficient metering code
to enable energy calculations at low processing speeds for
meters supported by capacitive supplies
Data preservation during fail or brownout events:
Low-power, real-time clock with the ability to switch to battery
supply, on-chip clock compensation, calendaring or an internal
clock if the external crystal fails
Meter tampering: Requires the ability to time stamp even
if supply is disconnected due to tampering
Increased meter complexity for smart metering
communication, which requires more GPIOs and serial
communication modules (I2C, SCI and SPI)
Aggregate information from individual meters and
communicate usage to utility sub via power line
communication in order to regulate energy usage.
II. METROLOGY
There are many Metrology available from different
providers like Texas instrument, Freescale, NXP, Analog, etc.
with some online survey; I could find some universal solutions
which could be developed at comparatively cheaper cost and
less time.
Survey for solutions:
Texas Instrument:
a. MSP430AFE2xx energy measurement IC solution
more details can be referred in Whitepaper [1]
b. 1-phase and 3-phase metrology function with processor
ranging from Cortex-M to Cortex-A8 [2]
Freescale Semiconductors:
a. S08xx:
ultra-low-power,
Flexis
8-bit
LCD
microcontrollers based Smart Meters [3]
b. MK30: Kinetis microcontroller based on the CortexM4 core based Smart Meters [3]
NXP
a. Energy metering IC with ARM Cortex-M0 for nonbilling applications like Wireless Plug Meter[4]
Analog Semiconductors:
a. Analog Front End Computing SoC ADE78xx [5]
After completing survey on basic of maximum features that
can be available with respect to Figure 1, with lowest possible
BOM cost, I decided to stick to the Freescale Kinetis Family as
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it was easily available with support. In this family K60 series
microcontroller has an inbuilt Ethernet, USB, SDIO, Meter
tamper circuit and many more features[].
With use of Kinetic K60 controller I can run a data logger
to save data in SDcard as well as display it through web
interface. Thus meter will have a global connectivity.
For metering, and Analog Devices provided proven highly
accurate, sturdy and robust AFE chip ADE78xx is used with
SPI interface to microcontroller.
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Table 2 Years data per GBs
Figure 4 Current-Sensor-CT
1 GB
2 GB
4 GB
8 GB
16 GB
32 GB
64 GB
Max
0.28
0.56
1.12
2.24
4.49
8.98
17.96
Min
17.53
35.07
70.14
140.27
280.55
561.10
1122.19
Unit
Years
Years
Years
Years
Years
Years
Years
WEBSERVER:
The meter will run a web server with maximum 6 users and
a dedicated client connection to Data collector Server. The
WebPages would be Dynamic page which on clicking menu
will run subroutines and display data in tabular and graphical
w.r.t to time.
A sample website with Google app will looks like,
Number
Min record in a Day
Max records in a Day
Size
Units
24
164.0625
KB
1440
9843.75
KB
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program between IBM and the City of Dubuque, Iowa, indicate
strong engagement by residents and energy savings of up to
11%.
OPTIONAL FEATURES
DIGITAL OUTPUT
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